Measures for reducing cost burdens for persons with low income

Less than 70 years of age

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts for High-Cost Medical Care Benefits

** Persons with low income refer to insured persons and dependents exempted from municipal tax or to insured persons and dependents who do not require public assistance if they are approved as eligible for measures for reducing cost burdens for persons with low income.

Category

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts

Frequent qualification of expenditures

Low-income persons

35,400 yen

24,600 yen

*When an eligible person qualifies for high-cost medical care benefits for at least three months of a 12-month period, starting with the fourth month, the cost-sharing maximum amount is reduced to the amount for cases of frequent qualification of expenditures

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts for High Aggregate Cost for Long-term Care Service

Standard copayment when hospitalized at a convalescent facility

Ages 70-74

** Low income II: Persons more than 70 years of age whose entire household is exempt from municipal tax, etc.

** Low income I: Persons more than 70 years of age whose entire household is exempt from municipal tax and whose income satisfies certain standards (e.g., pension income not exceeding 800,000 yen), etc.

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts for High-Cost Medical Care Benefits

Category

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts (outpatient)

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts (per household)

Low income II

8,000 yen

24,600 yen

Low income I

8,000 yen

15,000 yen

** No frequent qualification of expenditures applies.

Cost-Sharing Maximum Amounts for High Aggregate Cost for Long-term Care Service